How to Fund an Expedition

Did a violin teacher from Plano, Texas solve the world’s greatest classical music mystery?

The hi-tech war on science fraud

The story of the strange apparent reappearance of an American commando, MIA in Vietnam since 1968

‘Startling’ dinosaur protein discovery

Matter-antimatter asymmetry confirmed in baryons

LSD unlocks how our brains impart meaningfulness

The man who sold his back to an art dealer

38,000-year-old carving includes enigmatic “punctuation” pattern

Embarrassing bodies: what did the Victorians have to hide?

Computer Lets Fully Paralyzed Patients Speak for First Time

What happened to black Germans under the Nazis

Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze

A peek into what the NASA twins study will reveal about a manned mission to Mars

Scientists find a new process to make valuable graphene using soybean oil

Milky Way being pushed through space by cosmic dead zone, say scientists

A huge mouth and no anus – this could be our earliest known ancestor

Saturn’s B Ring, Finer Than Ever

Study finds first observational evidence that our universe could be a vast, complex hologram

From Hospital Gowns to Paper Couture: The Unlikely Origins of ’60s Disposable Dresses

The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity

Video: MasterChef winner Christine Ha shows how the Blind cook

After a century of failing to crack an ancient script, linguists turn to machines

America’s Long-Overdue Opioid Revolution Is Finally Here

Study based on identical twins: Chronic sleep deprivation suppresses immune system

First-ever discovered trilobite eggs paired with fossil of the segmented creature

Study: Five-month-old babies know what’s funny

Amsterdam to host Europe’s first ‘forensic cemetery’

100-million-year-old insect found in amber has features so unusual that it belongs to a new scientific order

Video: The US president’s speech following the Challenger disaster, 31 years ago today

A Four Planet System in Orbit, Directly Imaged and Remarkable

Photo: Note handed to President Johnson about fatal Apollo 1 fire, 50 years ago today (via /r/space on reddit)

Libor scandal: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number

The Secret History of the First Cat in Space

How A Deadly Heat Wave Led To Disastrous Floods 2,000 Miles Away

A new brain mapping technique reveals circuitry of Parkinson’s disease tremors

China’s $168 million plan to bring rain to its usually arid northwestern region

How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder – thermodynamics in biology

For this metal, electricity flows, but not the heat

How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case

We now have the genetic recipe for making tomatoes taste like tomatoes again

Juno’s Close Look at a Little Red Spot (for certain definitions of “little”)

The story of the Apollo 1 fire, which occurred 50 years ago today (by Ars Technica)

Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying

Dead Air: The Talk Show Guest Who Died on Dick Cavett’s Stage

Video: First look at Boeing’s new spacesuit that will take astronauts to ISS

When a “Golden Opportunity” to Bribe Arises, It’s Hard to Pass Up

Identity of man found dead on Saddleworth Moor confirmed

Violations of energy conservation in the early universe may explain dark energy

If you like sick jokes, maybe it’s because you’re just so smart

Doctors save Canadian woman’s life by removing her lungs for six days

Pictures: The Eldfell Eruption of 1973

The Untold Story of the Bastille Day Attacker

There used to be 4 billion American chestnut trees, but they all disappeared

Video: Riding Light: A real-time journey of a photon from the sun to Jupiter

Cassini spies Daphnis making waves in the rings of Saturn

Photo: Gustave Eiffel’s “secret” apartment in his famous Paris tower

What’s the Speed of Dark?

My unhappy 48 hours as an astronaut

The Parasite That Compels Other Parasites to Shove Their Heads Into Holes